North Korean leader Kim Jong-un carried out the fewest public activities this year since he took office in late 2011, data showed Saturday, amid toughened international scrutiny over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.

The North’s leader conducted 132 field guidances in 2016, compared to 153 cases recorded the previous year, according to Seoul’s unification ministry and analysis of North Korean media reports by Yonhap News Agency.

Since his public appearances peaked at 212 in 2013, they have been on the decline, the data showed.

According to my data (which are slightly different from Yonhap’s), here are the total number of Kim Jong-un’s guidance trips since taking power:

2012: 150
2013: 223
2014: 173
2015: 157
2016: 140

The Yonhap article speculates that the decline in activity is due to foreign observation of his activities. However I completed disagree with this assessment.

You can read the full story here:
N.K. leader’s public activities hit 5-year low in 2016: dataYonhap
2016-12-31

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